Nobody really knows how many Gophers there are in the world. Suffice it to say there are a great many, all of which have their own series of menu items offering information and services. 
Veronica is a tool that keeps track of many Gopher menus from around the world. You can use Veronica to perform a search and look for all the menu items that contains certain keywords. Jughead does the same thing for a specific group of Gopher menus. The result of a Veronica or Jughead search is a custom menu, containing whatever items were found. Selecting from the custom menu will automatically connect the user to the appropriate Gopher.

Wais servers provide another method of finding information that is spread around the Internet. Wais is able to access any of a large number of databases. To start, you tell Wais which databases you want to search. Next, you specify a list of one or more keywords to search for. Wais will search every word in every article in all the databases that you specified. The name 'Wais' stands for "Wide Area Information Service" and is pronounced "Wayz".

A mailing list is an organized system in which a group of people is sent messages pertaining to a particular topic. The messages can be articles, comments, or whatever is appropriate to that topic. 
You can subscribe and unsubscribe to a list by sending a message to the appropriate address. Many mailing lists are "moderated", which means that someone decides which material will be accepted. Other lists will accept and send out messages from anybody. If you feel lonely and ignored, subscribing to just a handful of mailing lists is guaranteed to keep you electronic mailbox filled to the Plimsoll line.

Where would computer system be without games? Of course, there are many computer games you can download for free via FTP and run on your computer. Bored of playing games alone? There are special network games that take advantage of the Internet facilities. Most games that are sold in the market today could be played and challenged on the Internet as well. Take for example Red Alert, Diablo, Monopoly, War Craft II and many more!

A MUD, or 'Multiple User Dimension', is a computer program that provides a virtual reality. To participate in MUD, you need to telnet to a MUD server, take on a role (character) and explore. As you do, you interact with other users who are playing their own roles. In other words, MUD allows you to exercise your fantasies and pretend, just like playing Dungeon and Dragons or visiting a magical realm. 
Rest assured, MUDs are at once complex, fascinating and addictive (Beware!). As you walk around the virtual reality of a particular MUD, you can talk with people, solve puzzles, explore strange places (like caves) and even create some reality of your own.

Through the World Wide Web, you can do almost everything stated above. To browse or 'surf' the web, you need a browser like Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer. You can download files easier than with FTP, access gopher sites, read newsgroup (Usenet), searches easier than with Archie and more.